The article also says that “of those 84 plumbers 65 were employees of one Norwegian company” – I’m assuming the remainder were plumbers mates (sorry!).

Norwegian only have 150 aircraft – even if all of its plumbers were on this flight, that still means more than one plumber per three aircraft. Is that a business norm or are Norwegian flushing (sorry again) their profits away by over-staffing?

Surely it is not unusual for newly established airlines to LOOse their way. Why don’t they PLUG these gaps and allocate the SEATS accordingly. The reason is probably more PAPERwork. If this is not PLUMBING the depths of the value of this forum, well ………………………